Permanent arp entry expires in 20 seconds on 8.0-RC2

[Li, Qing]

This looks like a bug, I'll fix it once I get some free time
later tonight.

-- Qing


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> net at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eugene Perevyazko
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 1:26 AM
> To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> Subject: Permanent arp entry expires in 20 seconds on 8.0-RC2
> 
> Hello freebsd-network readers!
> 
> This is on FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 (sys/netinet/in.c is 1.143.2.9.2.1)
> 
>   If I try to set permanent arp entry with "arp -s host etheraddr" and
> there
> exists an "incomplete" entry for this host at the moment, then this
> "permanent"
> entry will expire in 20 seconds.
> 
>   If I set arp with "arp -S host etheraddr" - it will be really
> permanent.
> 
>   It looks like with "-s" the flag of incompleteness isn't cleared.
> 
> Is this a bug or a feature?
> 
> --
> Eugene Perevyazko
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